With the F1 season now lurching into a regular fortnightly routine, and certain
aspect of Bonsai driving me crazy, I thought I’d have a little play around with
some die-cast model cars. As you may
know I get quite a kick out of creating one offs and as a way of increasing my
Bonsai revenue I often “upgrade” a car that I have to (hopefully) increase its
value.
As die-cast models are toys they quite rightly do not carry
logos for any kind of cigarette advertising.
I have been doing “toys to Rothmans liveried toys” for quite a while
mainly for my own collection. Whilst
fishing around my scraps box I notice I had some spare decals that would enable
me to update a 1998 Williams F1 car into a “Winfield” liveired car. Not the usual that a lot of collectors produce
but a fully, 100% race version from the Australian GP. Below are the 2 different versions for
comparison.
OK, nothing to get too excited about to the casual eye but
“night & day” to a collector. Added
to this all my cars have special bespoke inlay cards making then all
unique. Really good fun and sad to see
them go in a way but with over 60 “real” models to make I really need the room.
